<sf> wrote in message ...
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:48:41 -0400, "Edwin Pawlowski" >
> wrote:
>
>>Don't go there. I know people that have been robbed in Calabria. I hear
>>there are still highway men on the road stopping cars and robbing people
>>too. My wife's family is from there and she won't go.
>>
>>Go to northern Italy
>
> Did you know that Italy is about the size of Arizona? I was
> absolutely blown away when I read that.
>

Many more people though. I've never been to Calabria but I do know that
crime was higher there in the past. There are a few parts of northern
industrialized Italy that are not any different that driving along the NJ
turnpike. The older cities though, are breathtaking.